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On the Modeling of Manual Control Tasks

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Applications of Human Performance Models to System Design

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As long as complex technological systems are built, human beings are expected to control and supervise these systems. An important part of the design is the area where the human supervisor and the system come together, the so-called human-machine interface. In order to design the interface, the individual tasks to be executed by the supervisor and system have to be defined very precisely. However, this task allocation can only be achieved optimally when the capabilities and limitations of both the supervisor and the system to be supervised are known.

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    Henk G. Stassen

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  1. Harry G. Armstrong Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, USA

    Grant R. McMillan

  2. Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine, Downsview, Ontario, Canada

    David Beevis

  3. Naval Training Systems Center, Orlando, Florida, USA

    Eduardo Salas

  4. U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Fort Bliss, Texas, USA

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  5. Royal Naval Engineering College, Manadon, Plymouth, Devon, UK

    Robert Sutton

  6. TNO Institute for Perception, Soesterberg, The Netherlands

    Leo Van Breda

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Stassen, H.G. (1989). On the Modeling of Manual Control Tasks. In: McMillan, G.R., Beevis, D., Salas, E., Strub, M.H., Sutton, R., Van Breda, L. (eds) Applications of Human Performance Models to System Design. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9244-7_8

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